I have not yet purchased the rights to or stole the rights to Team Fortress 2 by Valve or RWBY by Monty Oum. Rest in peace, my friend.
Beacon Academy – Cafeteria
The members of Team RWBY are sitting down and 'enjoying' their snacks after a massacre of 20 students by Team R.E.D. yours truly. The red-clothed mercenaries managed to obliterate 20 first year students, Team RWBY and JNPR included. The leader of Team RWBY, Ruby Rose, could've ended the battle royale if she hadn't looked away from her opponent at the very last second.
"Awww…" Ruby was planting her head into the table, letting out a sad sound. Yang was trying her best to get her sister out of the mood she's in, instead of the normal bubbly excitement she had before. Blake and Weiss were looking at their leader who was younger than them constantly making sad sounds with sympathetic eyes.
"C'mon sis, cheer up! I'll get you cookies later!" Yang said in an attempt to cheer the 15-year old up. Upon hearing the word 'cookies', Ruby immediately snapped up and returned back to her normal bubbly personality with eyes glistering.
After buying 30 cookies at the counter, Yang returned to the table with a large plate with the delicious confectionery on top. Ruby was practically jumping up and down in her seat now, excitement no longer able to be contained. The second the plates touch the table, Ruby started to gobble up the cookies at speeds possibly faster than her semblance.
At this moment, the Team R.E.D.'s member, Engineer, walks into the cafeteria, stifling a yawn. At first, he didn't notice the girls who were sitting right beside the door, but realized soon after with a small chuckle.
"Oh, didn't know you gals are here. By the way, Ruby, nice shot you got there. Though would've considered getting shot in the head instead o' the stomach to suffer less, but no matter." The Texan replied with some dark humor. Ruby blushed a tiny bit at the compliment and stopped her cookie killing spree temporarily, smiling. She picked a cookie up and extended her hand to the hard-hatted man and offered him to eat it.
"Thanks kid." Engineer said with a grin and sat down opposite them at their table. The Engineer bit into the cookie and his eyes immediately lit up behind his construction goggles, surprised that a simple cookie could taste so immensely good. Ruby saw the happy expression on his face, although very hard to tell, and smiled at him.
"Whoever made this batch of cookies, I gotta hire them as our pastry chef." He said with a smirk.
"Hey, Mister Engineer?" Yang asked the man. He replied with a look towards her and a 'Yes?' coming from his mouth.
"Could we call you Engi?"
"Heh, why not. That's my nickname anyway." Engi said, laughing lightly.
Now it was Blake's turn to talk. "You said you were a mercenary in your world, correct? Who hired you? And what did they hire you for?" She asked while cocking her head to the right a bit.
"Yes, I am a mercenary. I'm afraid I can't tell you who my employers are, since I'm not even sure who they are. They hired me to…You might not want to hear this, but to kill people over and over again." The girls widened their eyes at this.
"Sometimes, we had to defend a specific area against enemy attacks, or to fight over a highly 'strategic' location."
Now Weiss spoke. "Who are your enemies? And why did you emphasize 'strategic'?"
The Engineer looked at her for a moment before opening his mouth to speak. "Our enemies are another group of mercenaries, called BLU. BLU stands for Builders League United. We have been at war with them since 1968. It's 1970 right now in our time. As for the second question, it's because our 'strategic' locations mostly include a barn, farm, warehouse, unneeded watchtowers and patches of gravel for darn's sake."
"Wow…Really great tactical mind…" Ruby said while still holding a cookie, eating the remaining cookies slowly in an attempt to savor it.
"And that's not all, oh boy. They even installed railways leading directly from the enemy base to our explosions cache on a number of forward operating bases of ours." Engi's statement made the girls hang their mouths open in shock at the stupidity of the people that hired the mercenaries.
After looking around, the Engineer decided to continue the conversation on the topic. "RED team, the team I was recruited into, consists of around 500,000 men." The fact made the girls mouth drop one inch lower. "We are all split into groups of 9, each member fulfilling a different purpose and role."
"What are the roles in those 9 members?" Yang asked with curiosity.
"Well, there's the Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Engineer (me), Heavy, Medic, Spy and Sniper." Ruby touched the Crescent Rose at the mention of snipers.
"Wait, why are your names the same as the roles?" Blake inquired the Engineer, whose actual name is unknown.
"Well, that's because our employers consider our real names as classified information. But darn it I can't just hide my real name forever. My name's Conagher. Dell Conagher. I don't know about the other merc's though." The Engineer said while taking his hard hat off.
"How many weapons do you have?" Ruby said while moving around in her seat, visibly excited.
"Huh…I think…26? I don't really remember." He said with a shrug. Looking at Ruby, he already knows what she wanted. He pulled out his Widowmaker and threw it towards the young huntress in training. Ruby caught it and began to examine it closely. After looking around for a bit, she noticed there was a clear lack of dust, before remembering that their weapons use gunpowder and began to search for the ammunition but couldn't.
"That, my love is the Widowmaker. I named it that because it has killed over 10000 men in it's usage." All eyes turn towards him. "Well their not actually dead, they respawned a few seconds later with the RSPWN machine. Heh, heh…" He laughed nervously. "Well, as I was saying, this beauty doesn't rely on ammunition, instead, it converts the amount of scrap metal I have on hand and turns it into ammunition. For every shot, it consumes around 30 scrap metal."
"Wow…." Ruby said while caressing the gun, painted brown and black.
"That ain't all, the more damage I dish out, I get the same amount of scrap metal relevant to the damage back."
"Really?! Oh I could already think about what this gun's parts could be useful for the Crescent Rose!" She said excitedly.
"On the topic of weapons, what weapons do those 9 roles wield? Except for you, of course." Weiss asked, the whiny tone still in her voice.
"Ok, the scout uses a double-barrel shotgu-I-I mean scattergun. He carries a pistol…." The Engineer continued his explanation while Team RWBY listened attentively.
"Ruby. Wipe your drool up." Engi said sternly at the red haired girl once he finished explaining the weapons, pointing at the pile of drool Ruby had made while listening to his talk on weapons, and the arsenal they have.
"One final question…Hehee…What is the most powerful weapon your world had ever produced?" Ruby said while wiping the drool away with a towel. Engi's head snapped towards her and glared at her, face darkening a bit.
"Are ya sure you wanna hear it?" Came the Engineer's surprising cold response. The girls nodded hesitantly, afraid of the darkened face of Engi.
"We call it, a Nuke. A nuclear bomb which can destroy countless lives in one stroke. The world used it once in 1945, and the results ain't pretty."
"W-what is the death toll of the weapon? How big is the explosion?" Yang said, slightly nervous.
"2 cities, population numbering in the hundred thousands, all wiped out in the span of 2 bombs, 3 days each other." He said while leaning in towards Ruby, face darkening significantly. Team RWBY leaned backwards in their seats, scared of the man with 11 PHD's. The Engineer chuckled a bit before sitting back down and returning to his normal face and mood.
"Let's not drag this conversation any darker. Y'know what? Lemme tell you all a tale, when I was fighting over the area of the Hightower…
-Flashback – Hightower-
The Engineer ran around, carrying a shotgun in his hand, on alert for any incoming enemies. He saw a Scout with a FAN approach him swiftly and shot him before the Scout could. He crumpled to the floor with a thud, 8 shells littering his body.
The Engineer then heard slow and heavy footsteps around the corner, and backed up against the wall beside the doorway. The footsteps got closer and closer until the Engineer could even hear the enemy Heavy's breathing.
He quickly brought his shotgun up and pointed towards the Heavy's face. Surprisingly, the enemy Heavy didn't have a weapon on hand. He just wore a pair of cotton mittens and is crouching on the ground, walking along slowly. Initially, the Engineer was confused whether to shoot it or not, but then realization crept up on him and he decided to do the only thing sensible in the situation.
He danced.
"Wait WHAT?!" Yang screamed.
"Shut up and let me continue!" Engineer retorted.
The Heavy saw this, and slowly stood up and strangely started dancing with the Engineer. The dance is called the 'Conga' and is extremely popular in the Cuban regions. After dancing a while, everybody stopped what they were doing and looked at the dancing duo. They hesitated for a while before shrugging and jumped into the dance. Soon, 24 people total are dancing along to the imaginary music, all with happy expressions on their faces. The fighting stopped entirely in that sector that day, due to the incapacitation of the fighters, AKA dancing.
"…"
"That might be the most funny and strange story of all time! AH HAHAHA!" Yang said while laughing on the ground, tears starting to form.
"I'm going to have to rethink common sense after this…" Weiss said with hands covering her head, shaking her head.
"This war of yours…I might want to fight in it…" Blake mumbled inaudibly.
"Heheheh, well we all returned to killing each other the next day though." The Engineer said with a laugh.
After a minute of letting Yang laugh her ass off, Ruby asked a question regarding a particular orange-colored glove.
"Oh, this? I wear it because I want to cover something up." Said Engi while pulling off his glove, revealing a prosthetic arm. The arm, at Remnants current standards, is pretty robust and old.
"Wooow…" Everyone woo'ed at the sight at the 5-fingered metal arm, wires attaching around it.
"I lost it when a Demoman used a large sword to cut it. I proceeded to shoot him 6 full shells in the face while around 10,000 of my pain receptors are on fire." The Engineer said calmly while spinning his hand around.
"Well, we need to get going now, we've been talking for nearly an hour now. See you later!" Said Ruby as she led her team away.
The Engineer then realized that he hadn't had his meal yet, so he bought a quick snack bar and ate it while walking around the school garden, hoping to get some peace and quiet. He found it to be quite calming around here, as he discovered the night he slipped up in front of the blond-haired member of Team RWBY.
But as if to prove the universe hates him even more, the Texan man heard the sound of a fight nearby. He turned around and saw Team CRDL, the bullies of the academy, are beating a Faunus who was lying down on the ground, attempting to shield himself with his hands. The Engineer could see that it was a cheetah-type Faunus, made obvious by the puma ears sticking out of his black hair.
Originally, the Engineer was going to turn a blind eye to it, seeing that he has no business in it, before remembering that he is still an assistant teacher, therefore it is mandatory for him to stop the fight and report them.
He walked towards the bullies, who started to look his way, with the leader, Cardin Winchester, crossing his arms and scoffing at the Texas-born genius. The Engineer stopped when he was 1 meter away from the bully and said in a commanding and authoritative voice.
"Racism is not tolerated around here. So why don't you just grab your motherfucking ass and get the hell outta here?" The Engineer said while placing his hand on his pistol. The bully replied by spitting on the Engineer shoe, smirking.
"Bad move buddy." The Engineer said as he pulled out his pistol and tackled the large student to the ground and pressed the 9mm into Cardin's temple.
"Make another move, and oh there won't be a face to laugh anymore." He said darkly. The bully's friends backed up and started to bolt away, abandoning their leader. Cardin glanced at them and back to the Engineer. He nodded furiously before being knocked out cold with a butt of the pistol grip and is hidden away in a pile of flowers nearby.
"Well that's a job well done, don't ya…" The Engineer said as he held his hand up for giving the bullied Faunus a high-five, only to find that the Faunus already ran away, nowhere to be seen. The Engineer slowly put his hand down and sighed, continuing his stroll.
-Somewhere in another Realm-
Sniper was sitting on the battlements of the RED base at the badlands, sniper rifle still in his hands, pointing towards the ground below in front of him.
Suddenly, his trigger finger twitched, accidentally pulling the trigger, discharging a round. Surprisingly, the round found a target as the sound of a decloak and the distinct sound of a head splattering was heard. Looking down, the Sniper saw the headless remains of a BLU Spy, about to infiltrate the RED base. The Sniper let out a sigh, and continued his patrol around the battlements.
It has been one and a half months since the disappearance of the Engineer, Spy, Pyro, Demoman and Medic. This meant that the base defenses are now handled by only 4 men, being him, Heavy, Scout and Soldier. The enemy's attacks are ruthless, and now they are pushed back to the second last point.
After walking around for another 30 minutes, he finished his patrol and went into the base for a cup of coffee to keep him on alert. As he walked in, he passed by a teleporter. Instead of the usual red glow normal RED teleporters have, this one was glowing a yellowish green. That day when the 5 men disappeared, the Sniper was standing guard on the battlements, overlooking the battlefield. He spotted the 5 mercenaries entering the strange teleporter, and that was the last time anybody ever heard, or seen of them.
The remaining 4 mercenaries have theorized that the teleporter must've been the cause of the 5 other members' disappearance. Therefore, they decided that it was not to be used unless it was an emergency and they needed to flee. Right now, the teleporter was placed inside their spawn room, illuminating the room with a green glow.
The Sniper looked at it, and turned around towards the kitchen.
Where are you, my friends?
A/N: Boom! Some coverage on the situation of the remaining RED team members. In case your wondering, the map is cp_badlands. I hope this isn't a dialogue hell though, hehe…